Wester & Co. v. Nestle’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2002
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cave v. Cave · Broncucia v. McGee · Rapoport v. 55 Perry Co. · McKellar v. Bracewell · 42 Colo. App. 341 - Kimmick v. Santilli
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The withdrawing partner] was discharged from his liability [only] if there was an agreement to that effect between himself, the remaining partners, and [a partnership creditor;] and such agreement may be inferred from course of dealing between the remaining partners and the creditor who has knowledge of the dissolution agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The dissolution of any partnership is the change in relation of the partners caused by any partner ceasing to be associated in the carrying on as distinguished from the winding up of the business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tafoya v. Perkins“A partner is discharged from any existing liability ... by an agreement to that effect between himself, the partnership creditor and the person or partnership continuing the business ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.